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Steve Bush explores the treasures in the pages of the first edition of Electronics Weekly, tracking down companies still trading. I have enjoyed having the chance to leaf through a copy, possibly the only paper copy, of the very first issue of Electronics Weekly. My mission: to see how electronic products and components have changed over 60 years. And what ...

Caroline Hayes talks to some hardware and software engineers about their career paths and experiences in technology. One of the longest established semiconductor companies is Analog Devices. It was founded in 1965, in Cambridge Massachusetts, USA and is now a multi-national semiconductor company. JoAnn Close is a Fellow at the company and gained her Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree at ...

Caroline Hayes asked Chi Onwurah, former head of telecoms technology at Ofcom, what can be done to attract girls to STEM. Chi Onwurah was elected as the MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central in 2010 and is a board member of the AFBE (Association for Black and Ethnic Minority Engineers). She is the shadow minister for Digital, Science and Technology. ...

Alun Williams tries to make sense of the Babel of programming languages that have emerged in the past 60 years and more. What is the common noun for programming languages? A babel, surely. Collectively, it’s a ‘Tower of Babel’ built over more than 60 years. In the beginning – we’re actually in the late 1940s, early 1950s – scientists had ...

This was how we introduced ourselves to the world on page one of that very first issue. Under the headline declaring us ‘Britain’s first electronics newspaper’, Electronics Weekly set out its mission. This newspaper makes journalistic history. It is the first newspaper in the United Kingdom to be devoted specifically to electronics – Britain’s fastest growing industry. It will enable ...

Read our special supplement celebrating 60 years of Electronics Weekly and looking ahead to the future of the industry

It is Electronics Weekly‘s 60th birthday today, and as part of the celebration we have had the very first edition scanned so that you can enjoy it. Get a cup of tea and a couple of digestive biscuits, sit yourself comfortably, and then click here to see to see just how much the electronics industry has changed since September 1960, and ...

The Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has presented us all with practical challenges. Electronics Weekly has taken the decision to suspend printing of the magazine, for a finite period that will most likely coincide with the duration of the current ’lock-down’. For the next four issues the magazine will be distributed as a digital replica, which will function in the same way ...

Metropolis Business Media is today announcing a change to Electronics Weekly’s editorial team.